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Monday, April 28, 2008

Mary Jane's Cafe Ribbon Cutting

On Tuesday, April 29th at 3:30 p.m., Brookens Library is going to have a Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony to celebrate the opening of Mary Jane's Café, the Brookens Library coffee shop.

Located on Level 1 of Brookens, the café features pastries and light lunch items as well as quality coffee, espresso, and other gourmet beverages. Bevande Coffee out of Bloomington has been chosen as the operator for Mary Jane's. Bevande serves fair trade, shade-grown coffee roasted in Seattle.

Mary Jane's is named after Mary Jane MacDonald, the first librarian hired at Sangamon State University. The space for the café had previously been called the MacDonald Lounge to honor Ms. MacDonald. Mary Jane MacDonald plans on being there and will be cutting the ribbon along with the Chancellor, the Provost and numerous other people who were instrumental in making the cafe possible.